NATUEAL HISTOEY. 



BOOK I. 

 I. QUADEUPEDS, OE FOUE-FOOTED BEASTS. 



I. Carnivorous, or Flesh-eating Animals. 



THE LION. (Mb Leo.) 



THE LION- is called the king of beasts, not only from his 

 grave and majestic appearance, but from his prodigious 

 strength. Zoologists describe him as an animal of the 

 cat kind, distinguished from the other species of the 



